Integrate ICT for learning with Microsoft tools
Microsoft offers an array of tools to support learners' use of ICT for knowledge construction and to design ICT products.
Microsoft tools that support learners' knowledge construction include:
- The Collections feature in Microsoft Edge allows learners to create collections to organize the research they'll analyze to construct new knowledge
- OneNote Class Notebook also allows learners to store key concepts from their research in OneNote. With digital inking, learners may annotate and analyze the research they collect. As learners work in OneNote, immersive reader offers reading and translation support
- SmartArt graphics in Word and PowerPoint support learners' knowledge construction. Learners use the graphics to demonstrate their understandings through interpretation, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of information
In some instances, Microsoft tools support learners' knowledge construction that would otherwise be impossible or implausible:
- Bing allows learners to find international newspapers, historical documents, and other content that would be unavailable to learners if they didn’t conduct internet research
- The translator extension in Edge translates the content from other countries/regions to a learner’s native language
- Microsoft Teams calls help learners connect with people outside class, whether an expert or peers in another location, to broaden their perspectives and extend learning beyond their own school
- Microsoft Forms enables learners to collect data on individuals outside their own school
A variety of Microsoft tools support learners when they’re designers of ICT products:
- Microsoft Video Editor helps learners create documentaries, commercials, music videos, and other video products that inform or persuade their chosen audience
- Microsoft Voice Recorder helps learners create podcasts
- Microsoft PowerPoint allows learners to give dynamic live presentations. With PowerPoint, learners may use a headset and have real-time, automatic captions or subtitles on screen. Additionally, with Live Presentations in PowerPoint, audience members may see a presentation on their devices and read live subtitles in their preferred language
- Microsoft Sway allows learners to create attractive multimedia presentations for the web. Sway’s interactive canvas allows learners to build a presentation with texts, images, and videos as well as embed Office documents or a Microsoft Form for data collection
- Microsoft Word helps learners create flyers, pamphlets, or deliverables for their selected audience
- Flip helps learners create tutorials with the screencast feature
- Minecraft Education allows learners to create prototypes of their designs
- Microsoft MakeCode Arcade allows learners to create video games that teach a lesson, review concepts, or simply entertain